Product Management Job Trends

Product Management
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Product Management skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 295 269 285
Rank change year-on-year -26 +16 -72
Permanent jobs citing Product Management 479 506 826
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.65% 1.16% 0.98%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.83% 1.24% 1.13%
Number of salaries quoted 200 305 491
10th Percentile £44,785 £46,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £55,621 £56,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £69,373 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.11% +2.77% -6.90%
75th Percentile £95,000 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £126,625 £96,671 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £63,076 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -2.96% +8.33% -5.88%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

Product Management falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 57,551 40,867 73,360
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 78.05% 93.60% 87.39%
Number of salaries quoted 34,815 22,139 55,867
10th Percentile £29,750 £32,500 £29,000
25th Percentile £39,860 £45,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -11.41%
75th Percentile £76,299 £80,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £94,006
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -8.90%

Product Management
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Product Management relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Product Management job vacancy trend in the UK

Product Management
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Product Management.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Product Management

Product Management
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Product Management over the 6 months to 13 March 2026.

Salary histogram for Product Management in the UK

Product Management
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Product Management within the UK over the 6 months to 13 March 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -19 431 £77,500 +12.02% 191
London +52 246 £93,750 +25.00% 104
Work from Home +24 190 £75,000 +15.38% 105
UK excluding London -91 183 £63,076 -2.96% 108
North of England -35 53 £76,250 - 26
South East -65 45 £58,750 -9.62% 38
Midlands -50 34 £64,038 -1.48% 17
North West -17 33 £82,500 +6.45% 17
West Midlands -18 25 £63,076 -2.96% 9
East of England +12 21 £60,100 -12.58% 11
Yorkshire -42 18 £68,510 +110.80% 7
South West -49 17 £62,500 - 10
Northern Ireland -17 11 £75,000 +26.20% 1
East Midlands -48 9 £80,000 +33.33% 8
Wales -8 4 £61,001 +2.64% 2
Scotland -26 4 £55,000 +5.33% 9
North East -27 2 £63,076 -23.54% 3

Product Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 17 (3.55%) Confluence
2 12 (2.51%) SharePoint
3 4 (0.84%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 3 (0.63%) CMS
5 2 (0.42%) CICS
5 2 (0.42%) MTS
6 1 (0.21%) Drupal
6 1 (0.21%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 19 (3.97%) Microsoft Excel
2 17 (3.55%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 8 (1.67%) Microsoft Office
4 6 (1.25%) Microsoft Project
5 3 (0.63%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 3 (0.63%) Trello
6 1 (0.21%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 13 (2.71%) Payment Gateway
2 5 (1.04%) NetSuite
3 3 (0.63%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.63%) Fidessa
3 3 (0.63%) Salesforce CRM
4 2 (0.42%) Workfront
5 1 (0.21%) Magento
5 1 (0.21%) Oracle SCM
5 1 (0.21%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.21%) Shopify
5 1 (0.21%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 60 (12.53%) SaaS
2 57 (11.90%) AWS
3 49 (10.23%) Azure
4 23 (4.80%) Power Platform
5 19 (3.97%) Pulumi
6 15 (3.13%) GCP
7 14 (2.92%) Azure DevOps
7 14 (2.92%) GitHub
8 10 (2.09%) GitHub Copilot
9 9 (1.88%) Microsoft 365
9 9 (1.88%) OneDrive
9 9 (1.88%) PaaS
10 8 (1.67%) H2O.ai
10 8 (1.67%) OpenShift
11 5 (1.04%) Asana
11 5 (1.04%) Snowflake
12 4 (0.84%) Collibra
12 4 (0.84%) Figma
12 4 (0.84%) Google Workspace
12 4 (0.84%) Miro
Communications & Networking
1 25 (5.22%) Broadband
2 10 (2.09%) HTTP
3 9 (1.88%) SD-WAN
4 8 (1.67%) WAN
5 6 (1.25%) LAN
5 6 (1.25%) RTP
6 5 (1.04%) Wi-Fi
7 4 (0.84%) Wireless
8 3 (0.63%) Multicast
9 2 (0.42%) 5G
9 2 (0.42%) Ethernet
9 2 (0.42%) Network Security
9 2 (0.42%) VPN
10 1 (0.21%) ATM
10 1 (0.21%) Bluetooth
10 1 (0.21%) Firewall
10 1 (0.21%) Intranet
10 1 (0.21%) MPLS
10 1 (0.21%) Value-Added Service
10 1 (0.21%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (4.59%) Power BI
2 21 (4.38%) NoSQL
2 21 (4.38%) Relational Database
3 20 (4.18%) RDBMS
4 17 (3.55%) Metadata
5 9 (1.88%) Data Lake
6 7 (1.46%) Tableau
7 6 (1.25%) SAP BW
7 6 (1.25%) SQL Server
8 5 (1.04%) Data Mining
9 3 (0.63%) Big Data
9 3 (0.63%) Data Warehouse
9 3 (0.63%) SAP HANA
10 2 (0.42%) DB2
11 1 (0.21%) Data Vault
11 1 (0.21%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 27 (5.64%) JIRA
2 19 (3.97%) Jaeger
3 4 (0.84%) ERwin
4 3 (0.63%) PowerDesigner
5 1 (0.21%) ER Studio
General
1 187 (39.04%) Finance
2 175 (36.53%) Social Skills
3 109 (22.76%) Marketing
4 85 (17.75%) Analytical Skills
5 59 (12.32%) Banking
6 54 (11.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 46 (9.60%) Retail
8 39 (8.14%) Law
9 38 (7.93%) Legal
10 36 (7.52%) Influencing Skills
11 32 (6.68%) Financial Institution
11 32 (6.68%) Presentation Skills
12 22 (4.59%) Public Sector
13 21 (4.38%) Back Office
14 20 (4.18%) Manufacturing
15 18 (3.76%) Digital Economy
16 16 (3.34%) Organisational Skills
17 11 (2.30%) Automotive
18 10 (2.09%) Electronics
19 9 (1.88%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 137 (28.60%) Product Manager
2 70 (14.61%) Lead
3 61 (12.73%) Senior
4 35 (7.31%) Senior Manager
5 29 (6.05%) Senior Product Manager
6 28 (5.85%) Product Owner
7 19 (3.97%) Product Lead
8 18 (3.76%) Digital Product Manager
9 17 (3.55%) Product Management Director
10 16 (3.34%) Change Manager
10 16 (3.34%) Developer
11 13 (2.71%) Consultant
12 12 (2.51%) Data Manager
13 11 (2.30%) Cloud Engineer
13 11 (2.30%) Development Engineer
13 11 (2.30%) Security Engineer
14 10 (2.09%) Senior Development Engineer
14 10 (2.09%) Senior Software Development Engineer
14 10 (2.09%) Senior Software Engineer
14 10 (2.09%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (3.97%) Elastic Stack
1 19 (3.97%) OpenTelemetry
2 12 (2.51%) REST
3 9 (1.88%) YAML
4 8 (1.67%) Keras
4 8 (1.67%) PyTorch
4 8 (1.67%) TensorFlow
5 5 (1.04%) .NET
6 3 (0.63%) FIX Protocol
7 2 (0.42%) CSS
7 2 (0.42%) HTML
7 2 (0.42%) Next.js
8 1 (0.21%) EDI
8 1 (0.21%) FastAPI
8 1 (0.21%) Flask
8 1 (0.21%) PySpark
8 1 (0.21%) RESTful
8 1 (0.21%) SOAP
8 1 (0.21%) Spring
8 1 (0.21%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 91 (19.00%) Product Ownership
2 39 (8.14%) Self-Motivation
3 38 (7.93%) Onboarding
4 27 (5.64%) Management Information System
5 19 (3.97%) Cloud Native
6 12 (2.51%) Enterprise Software
7 11 (2.30%) Public Cloud
7 11 (2.30%) Social Media
8 9 (1.88%) Security Posture
9 8 (1.67%) Analytical Mindset
9 8 (1.67%) Data Centre
10 7 (1.46%) Data Fabric
10 7 (1.46%) Mobile App
11 6 (1.25%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 6 (1.25%) IoT
11 6 (1.25%) Virtual Team
12 5 (1.04%) Driving Licence
12 5 (1.04%) Renewable Energy
12 5 (1.04%) SWIFT Messaging Network
13 4 (0.84%) EPoS
Operating Systems
1 23 (4.80%) Linux
2 19 (3.97%) Unix
3 6 (1.25%) Windows
4 2 (0.42%) zOS
5 1 (0.21%) Android
5 1 (0.21%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 250 (52.19%) Roadmaps
2 203 (42.38%) Agile
3 133 (27.77%) Product Roadmap
4 108 (22.55%) Product Strategy
5 105 (21.92%) Stakeholder Management
6 104 (21.71%) Continuous Improvement
7 95 (19.83%) Problem-Solving
8 91 (19.00%) Mentoring
9 90 (18.79%) AI
10 78 (16.28%) Analytics
11 74 (15.45%) Product Vision
12 69 (14.41%) User Experience
13 67 (13.99%) Information Security
14 61 (12.73%) Decision-Making
15 60 (12.53%) Coaching
15 60 (12.53%) Project Management
16 59 (12.32%) Business Development
17 49 (10.23%) DevOps
17 49 (10.23%) User Stories
18 48 (10.02%) Value Proposition
Programming Languages
1 43 (8.98%) Python
2 32 (6.68%) Java
3 28 (5.85%) SQL
4 23 (4.80%) JavaScript
5 20 (4.18%) Go
6 19 (3.97%) Bash
7 9 (1.88%) PowerShell
8 4 (0.84%) C#
9 2 (0.42%) Bicep
9 2 (0.42%) COBOL
9 2 (0.42%) JCL
9 2 (0.42%) PHP
9 2 (0.42%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.21%) MATLAB
10 1 (0.21%) R
10 1 (0.21%) SHACL
Qualifications
1 90 (18.79%) Degree
2 38 (7.93%) Master's Degree
3 29 (6.05%) Computer Science Degree
4 23 (4.80%) Security Cleared
5 20 (4.18%) AWS Certification
6 14 (2.92%) SC Cleared
7 7 (1.46%) DBS Check
7 7 (1.46%) PMI Certification
7 7 (1.46%) PMP
8 6 (1.25%) DV Cleared
8 6 (1.25%) MBA
9 4 (0.84%) SAP Certification
10 3 (0.63%) CSPO
10 3 (0.63%) HNC
11 2 (0.42%) Azure Certification
11 2 (0.42%) BPSS Clearance
11 2 (0.42%) CCNA
11 2 (0.42%) Cisco Certification
11 2 (0.42%) CISSP
11 2 (0.42%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (4.59%) QA
2 14 (2.92%) Data Quality
3 12 (2.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 11 (2.30%) Accessibility
5 10 (2.09%) NCSC
6 9 (1.88%) NIST
7 6 (1.25%) GDPR
8 5 (1.04%) IFRS
8 5 (1.04%) ISO 20022
8 5 (1.04%) PMO
8 5 (1.04%) SLA
9 2 (0.42%) COREP
9 2 (0.42%) FINREP
9 2 (0.42%) ISO 8583
9 2 (0.42%) PCI DSS
9 2 (0.42%) SEPA
10 1 (0.21%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.21%) GMP
10 1 (0.21%) GRC
10 1 (0.21%) PSD2
System Software
1 21 (4.38%) Docker
2 2 (0.42%) RACF
3 1 (0.21%) Firmware
3 1 (0.21%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.21%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 25 (5.22%) Terraform
2 21 (4.38%) Kubernetes
3 19 (3.97%) Ansible
3 19 (3.97%) Argo
3 19 (3.97%) Kustomize
3 19 (3.97%) Prometheus
4 2 (0.42%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
5 1 (0.21%) FortiGate
5 1 (0.21%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 49 (10.23%) Microsoft
2 35 (7.31%) Google
3 13 (2.71%) Salesforce
4 10 (2.09%) Adobe
5 9 (1.88%) Oracle
6 8 (1.67%) Databricks
6 8 (1.67%) Dell
6 8 (1.67%) NVIDIA
6 8 (1.67%) SAP
7 7 (1.46%) Foundry
8 4 (0.84%) Sage
8 4 (0.84%) Toshiba
8 4 (0.84%) YouTube
9 3 (0.63%) Apple
9 3 (0.63%) Bloomberg
9 3 (0.63%) Cisco
9 3 (0.63%) CQG
9 3 (0.63%) CrowdStrike
9 3 (0.63%) Reuters
9 3 (0.63%) Tenable